The Adventures of Daredevil Jack

“The serial with a thousand punches.”

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1920

20m

ActionAdventureMysteryRomanceWestern

Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey stars in this 15 chapter action serial, of which portions of reels 1, 2, and 4 survive. In the serial he plays the star fullback of his college's football team who gets drawn into an adventure when he stops to rescue a young woman from some thugs on a country road. It includes a gag featuring an exploding football. The rest of the cast includes Lon Chaney, Edgar Kennedy, Bull Montana, Josie Sedgwick and Herschel Mayall.

Key Crew

Director

W.S. Van Dyke

Producers

Robert Brunton

Cinematography

Gus Peterson

Cast (18)

Jack Dempsey

Jack Derry

Lon Chaney

Royce Rivers

Josie Sedgwick

Glory Billings

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